Pat Winslow worked for twelve years as an actor and left the theatre in 1987 to take up writing.
Her poetry collections include Unpredictable Geometry, Dreaming
of Walls Repeating Themselves, Skin
& Dust, The Girl in the Iron Lung, The Fact of an Eye and Harvest.
Pat’s fiction has
won competitions and appears in anthologies and magazines. She is a fiction reviewer for
Iota. She is also the judge for 2010's
Templar Open Poetry competition.
In 1995 she was a winner of the BBC's Alfred Bradley Award.
Pat is currently working as a writer in residence at a prison.
Every so often a poet will come along and quite literally take your breath away. 'Unpredictable Geometry'
is without doubt one of the finest collections I have read in a long time. Winslow is an actor turned poet, who has published
several collections... The poems gathered here are in turns moving, dark and astonishing. From a commonplace train journey,
through scarecrows and ghosts, to the survival of a Holocaust victim, the poet's unwavering touch, perceptive voice and
skilful manipulation of language impresses. There is not a moment which is not fresh, intelligent, unusual and unpredictable.
A superb collection and I, for one, will be ordering several copies for deserving friends.
- Victoria Buckley, The Frogmore Papers
